West Virginia Power & Transmission Co. v. Voight

POEEENBARGER, PRESIDENT :

The purpose of this appeal is review of a decree requiring specific performance of a contract of sale of real estate. Several defenses were interposed, among which was an appeal to the court to refuse specific performance, in view of circumstances disclosed which it is argued, render it inequitable.

In its original form, the contract created a mere option. It was dated December 24, 1912, accepted and converted *583into a contract in 1914, partly performed by payments on the purchase price, made in 1913, and 1914, and, it is charged, ignored from 1916 until December, 1919,…